Euro-Composites brings on Multistation as commercial partner

The Euro-Composites Group (Elkwood, Va., U.S.), a global player in the production of high-quality and sophisticated composite materials, welcomes Multistation (Paris, France) as a commercial partner. Serving its customers from three production sites in Bitburg (Germany), Echternach (Luxembourg) and Culpeper (U.S.) with a total of more than 1,000 employees, Euro-Composites will now be able to grow its presence in France.

Euro-Composites supplies its customers with standard products based on honeycomb cores and sandwich panels, as well as demand-oriented and customized products. Proposed materials — for its own projects and on behalf of customers — include Nomex, Kevlar, fiberglass, carbon fiber, aluminum, Twaron, Dyneema and ceramic matrix composites (CMC). The company serves civil and military aviation, space, defense and rail vehicle end markets, as well as small SMEs

At its main location in Echternach, Luxemburg, Euro-Composites maintains its own 60,000-square-meter R&D Center of Excellence. To answer the market demand for complex end products, it recently invested in a new plant equipped with presses, large autoclaves, large, high-precision machining centers and tomography with a large cleanroom.

“We welcome Multistation as new partner because France is a key market for us,” R. Alter, CEO of Euro-Composites, notes.

Founded in 1987, Multistation is a services supplier and disruptive technology company for digital and additive fabrication. It proposes a wide portfolio of machines for composites industrialization based on technologies like filament winding, laminating, curing, fiber patch placement and various additive manufacturing processes. “We are more and more involved in many projects linked to light weight,” Yannick Loisance, CEO of Multistation, says. “The agreement with Euro-Composites is an important step of our approach of this market.”

Multistation’s expertise covers several markets, including automotive industry, aerospace and defense, railway, energy, medical, subcontractor, education and R&D. It provides services to large corporations such as Renault, Peugeot, Safran, Airbus, SNCF and Cartier in France, North Africa and in other countries around the world.